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Traditional English :: myrrh(1)
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myrrhy.html - n. a gum resin from several trees of the genus Commiphora used, esp. in the Near East, in perfumery, medicine, incense, etc. myrrhic adj. myrrhy adj. [OE myrra, myrre f. L myrr(h)a f. Gk murra, of Semitic orig.] |
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Traditional English :: myrrh(2)
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myrrhy.html - n.
= sweet cicely. [L myrris f. Gk murris] |
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Traditional English :: myrrh(1)
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myrrhy.html - n. a gum resin from several trees of the genus Commiphora used, esp. in the Near East, in perfumery, medicine, incense, etc. myrrhic adj. myrrhy adj. [OE myrra, myrre f. L myrr(h)a f. Gk murra, of Semitic orig.] |
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Traditional English :: myrrh(2)
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myrrhy.html - n.
= sweet cicely. [L myrris f. Gk murris] |
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Traditional English :: myriad
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myrrhy.html - n. & adj. literary --n. 1 an indefinitely great number.
2 ten thousand. --adj. of an indefinitely great number. [LL mirias miriad- f. Gk murias -ados f. murioi 10,000] |
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Traditional English :: myriapod
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myrrhy.html - n. & adj. --n. any land-living arthropod of the group Myriapoda, with numerous leg-bearing segments, e.g. centipedes and millipedes. --adj. of or relating to this group. [mod.L Myriapoda (as MYRIAD, Gk pous podos foot)] |
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